Montreal-based Mobeewave has secured Series A investment in a round led by SBT Venture Capital. This new strategic funding will fuel Mobeewave’s rapid growth and support new market openings worldwide, while fast tracking the roll out of its products roadmaps.

The nation’s fifth largest payments processor reported record record quarterly net revenue of $188.3 million, up 26.2% from the fourth quarter of 2013. Heartland Payment Systems says same store sales rose 3.9% and net volume attrition fell to 10.7% in the fourth quarter, the best performance for each metric in over 5 years.

Cards-in-Force (CIF) in Bahrain grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.49%, increasing from 830,360 cards in 2009 to 1.0 million in 2013. In terms of transaction value, payment cards reached BHD1.1 billion (US$3 billion) in 2013, after registering a CAGR of 17.37%.

Visa is expanding the use of new security technology that replaces the traditional 16-digit Visa account number with a unique series of numbers, helping to prevent exposure of sensitive consumer account information in online and mobile payments.

More than 1,500 data breaches led to one billion data records compromised worldwide during 2014. These numbers represent a 49% increase in data breaches and a 78% increase in data records that were either stolen or lost compared to 2013.